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Associate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @BOLD_LAB_AI. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.
AI
Latent Sparse Attention's researchers say it matches full attention's accuracy at ultra-long contexts.
XAI
Coauthor Jason Weston outlines human-guided benchmarks, hack detection, simulated user training and expert-aligned writing rubrics.
AI
A Binance shareholder said Tether froze about $971 million and Circle about $823 million; he expects user funds fully covered.
AI
Cohere says the model's reasoning trace said it wouldn't call tools, but its sandbox blocked an attempted upload.
AI
Its developer says Flint exceeds 125 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro at short contexts.
XAI
A post argues open-weight cyber models benefit defenders, citing progress finding bugs and the cost of comparable closed models.
AI
A quote post says 'it's time to invent math 2.0' and links to a video, adding '(sounds on).'
AI
A researcher says collaboration could let AI agent populations take off without individual agents becoming more capable.
Technology
Reuters reports Nvidia plans $50 million a year in computing resources for AI agent safety testing.
AI
NVIDIA says the five-year commitment will provide $50 million in compute access annually through UK-based cloud partners.
AI
One poster argues that the EU lags in building AI and receives almost none of its gains amid scant investment.
AI
An October 13 recruitment post gave noon UK time as the deadline and invited candidates to help build @bold_lab_ai.
AI
A user credits professors and students with foundational AI work before Nvidia and Google embraced the field.
AI
Mistral says Mistral Large 4 is live via API in public preview now, with open weights due at the end of October. Reuters says the launch is part of Mistral’s push to narrow the gap with leading Chinese open-weight models.
AI
Reflection says Beam uses 23B active parameters and plans to publish its full weights later in October 2026.
AI
Posts on X congratulated Nathan Lambert and Trillium Labs after a launch, with several users describing the effort as open, science-oriented or focused on open post-training. Lambert later said some criticism came from Substack and more general-audience AI followers, not the technical AI community.
AI
A Nature paper reports 15 wins, one loss and four draws against Pim Niemeijer. The authors call it a superhuman result, but did not run a direct match against DeepNash.
AI
A participant shared what they described as an hour-long conversation with SAIR Foundation, while flagging a noon UK time deadline on September 15, 2026, for applications to the first BOLD Fellows cohort.
AI
The post imagines a single AI-fueled global government combining what its author considers the worst regulatory and social policies of the past 20 years.
AI
CBS Mornings reports that current and former Anthropic employees warned AI could kill all humans. Critics worry exaggerated forecasts could undermine trust, while a defender of numerical forecasts argues they convey the seriousness of the concern.
